Dennis Hastert Quotes
Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
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The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.
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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
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I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.
